I wanted to start a list of foods safe for sesame/peanuts/treenut.I feel so completely thrown off by sesame. I had finally come to terms with the nut thing. Sesame is completely different. I have lots of phone calls to make. I went back through all old posts and compiled this list. If anything is incorrect please let me know. Just trying to get the hang of this allergy. Please check these items since I have not called directly on them.

Thank you so much for this list! Being the paranoid mommy, I always double check, but it is so great to have a good list of "hopefuls" already compiled. We use and love lots of these, and I see lots of new goodies to try, too! Yay!

We were recently on the hunt for barbecue sauce, and I emailed Famous Dave's... I got emails back from the president or CEO (can't remember which now) who has a peanut allergic child... He was very understanding of our needs. He then passed along the info to someone who could research the sesame issue. It took several weeks - but I finally got confirmation that they are free of peanut/tree nut/and sesame. Woo hoo!

So there's one to add to the list.

Oh - and we've had great responses from Pirate Booty as well. No peanut/tree nuts or sesame in Pirate Booty, but it's been about a year since I called.

I did not check for nuts/peanuts, but I was told that Aunt Millie's breads with a code A are CURRENTLY made in a sesame free facility. The code is on the package followed by about 8 numbers. All other codes are not safe.

I don't know how safe code A is in terms of cross-contam risk.

I would suggest that anybody interested contact them to confirm safety info.

I have noticed that more and more companies are labeling for sesame that is an intentional ingredient although some are better than others about controlling cross-contam risks.

General Mills and Kraft and Amy's have been doing it for a while, but I was told that even companies like Mars and ConAgra have started to label for intentional sesame (I'm not saying I trust the companies for safety because they each handle cross-contam and suppliers differently, but I'm happy to see more companies labeling for obvious sesame).

I'm not familiar with all of the products, but many listed there I do consider safe. (I'm allergic to peanuts and sesame seeds.)

However, I'm not in the US, and some products are safe in one country but not the other.

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Since you are new to the allergy world, I just want to make sure you realize, there is no law requiring that companies label something as "may contain" if there's a risk of cross contamination. You need to question different companies.

I'm also not sure whether sesame or sesame oil is required to be labeled if it's an added ingredient in the US.

that is interesting information, i will avoid those pretzels for sure.

i also called digiorno back and asked about cross contamination possibility. the rep i spoke to said they thoroughly clean and disassemble/reassemble machinery after producing each product. she assured me that there would be no cross contamination. i ended up eating some of the pizza and was fine.

i should note, im not really sure how severe my sesame allergy is. i went to the allergist earlier in the week and did the skin prick test and it showed a mild sesame allergy. i want to ask about blood testing or or getting desensitized to this if possible because i am paranoid now even though i havent had a bad reaction, if any.